MOST-MENTIONED SPORTS FIGURES
Rather than break down the amount of time a specific athlete or figure was covered, we counted how frequently names were mentioned in the transcripts from the week. The 15 most-mentioned sports people for April 20-26:

Notes

Hockey's impressive streak continues: The NHL picked up another 45.75 minutes of SportsCenter coverage this week. It's the second consecutive week hockey has gotten at least 15 percent of the available airtime.

New York is popular: With the Yankees and Rangers taking the top spots among MLB and NHL teams this week, New York has achieved a weekly top spot in all four major sports, the first city to do so in 2012. So yes, being in a major market near Bristol helps your chances of making the news. Crazy, right?

ESPN didn't go overboard covering the draft: Perhaps it's because they already exhausted the topic over the past month, but ESPN spent a little less than 40 of the NFL's 54.75 minutes on previewing and recapping the draft. That's less than six minutes a night on the flagship program. There's only so much time you can spend on the draft when we all knew where Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III would end up, but a lack of suspense has never stopped ESPN from overhyping an event.